We rescued a turkey last year or the year before. We named her Clementine. I'll post the picture in the photos, and you can post yours too!

Mak, Did you actually have the turkey live with you? That's a real adoption! We just pay money. Here's Martha:
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/giving/adopt-a-turkey/

Shadow, what do you serve? My extended family are a bit condescending, and no one ate the veggie dish I brought one year, so now I just bring tofu for my brood and bring the rest of them presents instead of food.

Shadow, your menu sounds awesome! I wish I could go to your house. I am always so underfed on Thanksgiving, because we're driving for hours so food won't stay hot, and it's a big inconveniece for my host to ask to heat things. (She offers her microwave, which I don't use.) I don't eat wheat, dairy or sugar, so I'm left with soup, mediocre salad and the tofu and avacado I bring. The rest of the menu is turkey, wheat stuffing, rice from a box with msg and herbs, sweet potato with sugar glaze (they are so naturally sweet --who thought of this?????), frozen veggies with fake butter, and sugary dessserts. I realize this is how most of America eats, but UGH.

Sweet potatoes are so yummy by themselves! Don't know where the marshmallows came in, never in my family.

Shadow, I have to laugh. Did you ever see the Everybody Loves Raymond episode when Marie made a tofu turkey for Thanksgiving? Hilarious.

I'll cook whatever anybody wants, because in my house, its about the guests feeling welcomed. It can be tough on the hostess when people want to use the oven if hostess has carefully planned a dinner timed perfectly for each dish to be piping hot when served. Thats my bugaboo, I like to serve hot dishes hot.
Anyone have those lovely buffet crockpots & warming/server pots? Don't know what they are called, but perfect for keeping foods hot when the ovens & burners are in use. Buffet warming trays? Not the ones with live fire underneath! There's a holiday disaster waiting to happen, LOL.

Marshmallow sweet potoes Well of course who introduced it?

>early 1900s. According to Saveur, the first instance of marshmallows in a sweet potato dish appeared in a booklet commissioned by Angelus Marshmallows, one of the first companies to mass produce the candies that were formerly only available to the rich. The booklet was made to introduce the now readily available marshmallows as an everyday ingredient. Included in the collection of recipes was the now famous mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows.<

What next? Hershey kisses in salad?

I had a microwave when my son came to live with us. we got it for him. One day, I was on the phone talking about it to a friend and I was wondering it if was as bad as they say. I looked at it, and the darn thing flashed me! It was not on, not in use, but the light bulb in it flashed me. Needless to say, I took it back the next day and let my son learn to use the stove.

We had apple crisp and veggie soup for thanksgiving. It was good. Oh, and I made some chocolate with organic coconut oil, cocoa powder and a wee bit of sugar, boy doesn't take much, since coconut oil is so sweet. Poured it over a handful of craisins and a handful of chopped walnuts spread on a piece of parchment paper in a 8x10 or so corning ware pan and refrigerated it. Best chocolate in the world. Oh, you'll want to use powdered sugar so it dissolves, or some other powder, like Stevia. I put organic sugar in the coffee grinder to make powdered.

It's a good thing I do eat meat. Right now, because of the months and months of diarrhea from CIBO, my diet is only meats, homemade broth, boiled non-starchy vegetables, and eggs. No sugar, gluten, milk products, and no rice or potatoes. I'd starve without the meat. Almost starving anyway!

That's a very restricted diet, Marilyn. Can you have nuts and seeds?

Thought you'd find this article interesting.

http://www.drfuhrman.com/faq/question.aspx?sid=16&qindex=9

Our dinner tonight was broccoli, 8 oz each, steamed. That gives us 8 grams protein, same as 1.2 oz steak.
Mixed with tomato sauce, 1/2 garlic bulb (5-6 cloves) and 1/2 large onion.
red lentils and quinoa with coconut oil. More protein and healthy fat.
and some herbs, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar.